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ISU graduate student writes children's book on food safety

Armitra Jackson, a Ph.D. graduate student in meat science at
ISU, just wrote the book "The Birthday to Remember Forever," which is the
first in the series "Eating Safe with Ace and Mace." The series is geared toward children in kindergarten through fourth grade and focuses on
the importance of handling food in a safe manner so that foodborne illnesses
are prevented.

Alumni and friends to be honored at celebration

Twelve individuals and one corporation will be presented with Iowa
State University's most prestigious honors from the Iowa State
University Alumni Association and ISU Foundation April 11 at the
annual Distinguished Awards Celebration.

Controversial environmental conservative will speak April 16

Bjorn Lomborg, author of "The Skeptical Environmentalist"
will speak on "The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming"
at 6 p.m., Wednesday, April 16 in the Memorial Union Sun Room. The World
Affairs Series lecture is free and open to the public.

U. S. deputy undersecretary of defense to speak April 15

The principal logistics official within the senior
management of the U.S. Department of Defense will speak as part of the
World Affairs Series. Jack Bell, deputy undersecretary of defense, will
speak on "Department of Defense Operations in the 21st Century" at 8
p.m., Tuesday, April 15 in the Memorial Union Sun Room.

Madeleine Kunin, the first and only woman to serve as governor
bof Vermont and former ambassador to Switzerland, will be ISU's Spring 2008
Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics on Thursday, April 24. The
nation's only three-term woman governor (1985-1991), Kunin will discuss her
new book, "Pearls, Politics, and Power: How Women Can Win and Lead," in a
free, public presentation at 7:30 p.m. in the Great Hall of the Memorial
Union.

A team of Iowa State faculty, representing all four College of Design
departments, has received a 2007-2008 Creative Achievement Award from
the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. They won for
development of Design Science, an experimental course that introduces
students to the fundamental relationship between science and design in
their first year of college.

Superdelegate founder returns to ISU this week, discusses role with
political scientists

U.S. Ambassador and former chair of the Democratic National
Committee Charles Manatt founded the party's current superdelegate system
back in 1983. A 1958 ISU graduate, Manatt will be back on campus
Thursday through Saturday, April 10-12, as one of the five recipients
of an ISU Distinguished Alumni Award.

Iowa Lakes Community College and ISU announce partnership

Iowa State and Iowa Lakes Community College are making it more convenient for Iowa Lakes students who want to earn an associate degree and transfer to Iowa State to earn their four-year degree. Iowa Lakes Community College President Harold Prior and ISU President Gregory Geoffroy announced the joint admission program at a news conference today at the Estherville campus of Iowa Lakes.

Relationship of plants and climate change is subject of upcoming ISU conference

ISU's Plant Sciences Institute is hosting a mini-conference "Plants and Climate Change." The conference will provide information from a panel of experts to help Iowans plan ways to contribute effectively to climate change solutions.

Should real profits in virtual worlds be taxed? ISU professors say
there's a way to do it

ISU endowed chair named for George Washington Carver

With support from the state of Iowa and a private donor, Iowa State University has established an endowed faculty chair in the name of its first African-American student and faculty member, world-renowned scientist George Washington Carver

Sesquicentennial celebration at the statehouse

ISU exhibits dotted the rotunda of the statehouse April 3 as part of
ISU Sesquicentennial Day at the Legislature. Gov. Chet Culver and Iowa
lawmakers helped mark the occasion by signing a reproduction of the
1858 law that created Iowa State.

In the news

Jill Pruetz, ISU anthropologist, on PBS' Nova.

Almost Human

National Geographic

In 2007 Jill Pruetz, an anthropologist at Iowa State
University, reported that a Fongoli female chimp named Tumbo was seen two
years earlier, less than a mile from where we are right now, sharpening a
branch with her teeth and wielding it like a spear. She used it to stab at a
bush baby, a pocket-size, tree-dwelling nocturnal primate that springs from
branch to branch like a grasshopper. Until that report, the regular making
of tools for hunting and killing mammals had been considered uniquely human
behavior.